The Westminster whistleblower: how my friend Sergei tried to expose the Kremlin plot against Britain

Russian-born UK citizen and Tory party activist Sergei Cristo fought to make MI5 sit up and take notice of the Russian political interference operation now threatening democracy in Britain – and around the world

How does the US Tiktok ban work?

TikTok has gone dark in the US for both users who have already downloaded it on their phones and in mobile app stores

TikTok goes dark in the US ahead of ban

App no longer available on US Apple and Google stores after supreme court upholds lawmakers’ ban

Trump says he will likely grant TikTok a 90-day reprieve from US ban when he takes office

President-elect said he’d probably give the company an extension from US ban the supreme court recently upheld

UK to introduce digital driving licences to ‘transform public services’

The digital option will be made available through a government app, but will not be mandatory

This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies

Putting pressure on social media companies to tackle hate and misinformation is a start, but there’s more that the centre left can do, writes Sadiq Khan

With his toxic revamp, Emperor Zuckerberg is preparing to be Trump’s puppet

The Meta boss has embraced masculinity and abandoned fact-checking and decorum. Is this the future of the tech industry?

‘A lot of chaos, quickly’: panic grips US music industry as ‘kingmaker’ TikTok faces ban

Labels and artists forced to rethink marketing strategies as viral hit-making app faces possible US shutdown on Sunday

Never have stale crisps again… nine invaluable things I’ve learned from TikTok

As the platform bows out in the US, here is my carefully curated list of the best things it’s taught me

Chinese rival app Xiaohongshu is overwhelmed by ‘TikTok refugees’ in US

Social media accounts blocked for breaking Beijing rules as millions of users join up before ban takes effect

‘You can’t be pro-billionaire and pro-working class’: Biden’s labor chief on return of Trump

Julie Su, acting labor secretary, fears many of Biden’s pro-worker policies will be undone by the new administration

When kids set their parents’ screen time rules: ‘I hit my limit before I even get out of bed’

Would six-year-old Malakhi be strict? Could the grownups give up their phones? Three writers let their children set the rules

The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

Censorship, homework help and cats: China’s RedNote users welcome ‘TikTok refugees’

Americans fleeing the looming TikTok ban have been warmly welcomed to app Xiaohongshu – or RedNote – despite China’s tight restrictions on what can be posted

Sir David McMurtry obituary

Engineer whose trigger probe made his company Renishaw a world leader in measuring for hi-tech mass production